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Oksana Domnina

Oksana Domnina
Oksana DOMNINA Maxim SHABALIN 2009WC.jpg
Domnina and Shabalin at the 2009 Worlds
Personal information
Full name Oksana Alexandrovna Domnina
Country represented Russia
Born (1984-08-17) 17 August 1984 (age 32)
Kirov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Partner Maxim Shabalin
Former partner Maxim Bolotin
Ivan Lobanov
Former coach Natalia Linichuk
Gennadi Karpanosov
Alexei Gorshkov
Oleg Sudakov
Larisa Filina
Former choreographer Natalia Linichuk
Skating club Odintsovo Ice Skating School
Began skating 1989
Retired 2010
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 207.14
2008 Europeans
Comp. dance 43.76
2010 Olympic Games
Original dance 64.68
2009 Worlds
Free dance 104.99
2008 Europeans

Oksana Alexandrovna Domnina (Russian: Оксана Александровна Домнина, born 17 August 1984) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. She and partner Maxim Shabalin are the 2010 Olympic bronze medalists, the 2009 World Champions, the 2008 & 2010 European Champions, the 2007 Grand Prix Final champions, and three-time (2005, 2007, 2010) Russian national champions.

Domnina began skating at the age of six in Kirov and took up ice dancing two years later due to her height. Early in her career, she competed with Ivan Lobanov and Maxim Bolotin.

Domnina was paired with Maxim Shabalin in May 2002 by coach Alexei Gorshkov. In their first season together, they won every junior level competition they entered, including the 2002–03 Junior Grand Prix Final and the 2003 World Junior Championships.

Shabalin sustained a meniscus injury in spring 2007 and had surgery on his right knee in May. They initially worked on a free dance to Schindler's List but when they wanted to add a faster section they thought it looked too much like a hodgepodge; after consultation with Tatiana Tarasova, they began working on a new free dance to Masquerade Waltz at the start of August. In September 2007, Shabalin also had surgery due to appendicitis. He then had problems with his left knee and had another operation in December. He returned to win the 2008 Europeans but limped off the ice. The pain persisted despite therapy, preventing them from training fully and resulting in their withdrawal from the 2008 World Championships. Shabalin spent five weeks in treatment in Munich, Germany, while Domnina trained on her own in Odintsovo, near Moscow.


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